Abstract: How to detach an external HDD that uses an on-disk write cache while the kernel thinks that it it writing through?
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I use a WD-Elements external USB HDD of which hdparm -I says
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I run a number of Xubuntu 18.04 machines, and set up more from time to time. I want to be able to turn off automounting of USB sticks with commands, so that it becomes an automatic part of my setup.
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OS: Debian Stretch
Motherboard: Foxconn G33M02
I installed the package nvidia-driver using the instructions at
https://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers
and on reboot, got a looping "over current" ...

I'm installing Fedora 28.1.1, after verifying the checksum of the download, on a brand new server with a Xeon E3-1275 v6 CPU, 64GB of 2400 Unbuffered ECC DDR4, Intel P630 integrated HD Graphics, and a ...

We have a fairly later(est) version of Manjaro linux xFCE, and we are trying to copy over 150 GB of data from a 1 terabyte HDD 5400 ROM to a Samsung external SSD T5 500 GB. It transfers at a whopping ...

I am running on Linux Mint 19.1 64 bits, generic kernel 4.15.043.
I have two external USB3 HDD's that will not show anymore when I plug them into a USB3 port, but do show when I plug them in a USB2 ...

I have a built-in USB device that is not responding to setup address. It tries to set the device up continuously and fails continuously: wasting battery, CPU, disk space, etc.
Is there a way to kill ...

I am trying to get my TP-Link TL-WN722N external USB wireless adapter with Atheros AR9271 working and I've tried everything I could find on the matter.
I have firmware-atheros and all the firmware-* ...

I bought a generic usb headset (Generic USB PnP Sound Device), it has been detected by the system, I am using Plasma KDE by the way, but it worked for me once and for about a second and then nothing. ...

I have a file that is 12 GB that I am trying to copy from a MacBook Air to a Debian computer, using a USB. I tried formatting the USB in many different ways, such as NTFS, FAT32, OS X Journalizing but ...

Alsamixer shows my Speechmatic, but it doesn't work in any application.
I have .asoundrc set to device 1, and it works with other USB sound cards, like my Logitech, but not this one.
I think I have ...

When I plug the reader into USB port then it is not recognized by the system and the red LED in it keeps on glowing (as opposed to the situation when it is running properly and the LED is only glowing ...

Is there some easy way to convert USB frames to ethernet packets and converting those back to USB frames?
The Linux network and USB stack can certainly do the former. That's how USB ethernet / wifi ...

In a coming new system we need to have a very short boot time (up to 3 seconds). The system shall also have a USB connected to touch screen.
We are afraid that the USB enumeration might take too much ...

When I am using raspbian with a 4g USB modem, sometimes the network goes down and there is no option to bring back the network unless I reboot the raspbian.
In such cases, I try:
service networking ...

I have a test app which basically sends block of characters over USB by using NCM connection.
When packet size is exact 512 bytes i see NCM is getting hung. By analyzing further i have found that it ...

I'm using f3 and a custom Bash script to test USB flash memory in big amounts.
A common problem I encounter is that some faulty drives would starve all the healthy ones for IO, effectively stalling ...

I would like to install Nitrux OS on my computer, which I like because of its beautiful design. I currently have Ubuntu installed, downloaded the Nitrux ISO and would now like to create a bootable USB....

I have been trying to use an external display with my hp-envy-13 running ubuntu 18.04 for a while now. I was expecting that kernel 4.19 would have the support but it still does not seem to work. The ...

I followed online instructions on setting up a USB bootdisk with rufus-3.3 to install Linux Manjaro, after setting everything up I get the following error:
So far two versions of the Manjaro - from ...

I'm experiencing weird behavior on a custom board that is flashed through USB hub and I'm trying to determine the root cause.
When flashing is attempted from natively (Linux XPS-15-9560 4.19.0-041900-...

I have two or more 4G dongles connected via USB. I have set up multiple configuration files (one for each provider), but short of a visual inspection (which for this project won't be possible in the ...

I'm trying to get a USB HID device to work in Ubuntu, but can't seem to get it to work at all. It is a USB HID device, and shows up as such in dmesg:
[ 2236.277518] usb 1-1: new full-speed USB device ...